In this Aug. 15, 2019, photo, a boat navigates at night next to icebergs in eastern Greenland. U.S. President Trump announced his decision to postpone a visit to Denmark by tweet on Tuesday Aug. 20, 2019, after Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen dismissed the notion of selling Greenland to the U.S. as “an absurd discussion.” (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

The President of the United States is clearly crazy. He offered Denmark $100 million in gold for Greenland and even dangled parts of Alaska to sweeten the pot! Insane, right?

The crazy President was Harry S. Truman. The year was 1946.

Which isn’t to say our current president didn’t have millions Googling the 25th Amendment last week by playing the “Let’s buy Greenland” card 73-years after the Danes said no to Truman.

Wanting to buy Greenland is not what makes people question the president’s sanity.

Getting into a fight with the Danish Prime Minister and canceling a foreign visit for turning him down does.

To no one’s surprise, the Danes — Greenland’s landlords — were not interested in selling their 660,000 square mile backlot.

Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen called the idea, “absurd” and said Greenland is not on the market. She’s right. I checked Zillow and Greenland’s not even listed. But President Trump considers himself a savant when it comes to real estate deals and objected to having his brainstorm called “absurd.”

So, how did he respond? By doing the most absurd thing a president could do — he cancelled a scheduled trip to Copenhagen and called the Danish Prime Minister, “nasty.” This coming in the same week the president called the communist dictator of China, “a good man” and lobbied once again for Vladimir Putin’s Russia to be restored to the G7.

I have no idea if buying Greenland is a good idea or not. I’m still debating the wisdom of buying a vacation home on the Oregon Coast where it rains all year. The president has yet to say what he wants to do with Greenland. He did tweet out a picture of a giant Las Vegas-style Trump Tower building photoshopped onto the tundra with the caption, “I will not do this to Greenland”, so we know what he wouldn’t do.

Given that 80 percent of Greenland is covered with ice and snow the options are somewhat limited. Then again, Donald Trump is a deep thinker with a big brain while the rest of us can’t see an inch past our noses. He may be playing the long game, counting on climate change as free snow removal. Voila, suddenly Greenland is over-flow parking for Canada!

If it had just been Greenland, last week would have been almost benign by Trump standards. Unfortunately, the president also had things to say about the Jews.

The president questioned the “loyalty” of Jews in America. Not to America, but to Israel. “If you vote for a Democrat, you’re very, very disloyal to Israel and to the Jewish people,” said the president.

Which is a reboot of the ancient and lethal anti-Semitic trope of the “disloyal Jew” who’s first allegiance is to their religion, not dissimilar to JFK being asked if he’d take his orders from the Pope back in 1960. By the president’s standard, I was disloyal to Ireland and Catholicism because I did not support Ted Kennedy.

Absurd.

The president then doubled-down, as he almost always does when his Twitter finger itches, and retweeted a long, messianic, posterior-kissing post from the former sports handicapper and current conspiracy theorist, Wayne Allyn Root. Root crowned Donald Trump, “King of Israel,” a title uncomfortably close to “King of the Jews,” a title previously given to Jesus Christ, and then went on to claim Mr. Trump is loved in Israel, “like he is the second coming of God.” Root also pronounced our 45th president, “the best President for Israel in the history of the world,” apparently ignoring the aforementioned Harry Truman who was indispensable to the creation of Israel after Second World War.

This president is a sucker for flattery and he’s not particularly particular about its source.

And that’s a problem. Donald Trump has the disturbing habit of giving oxygen to divisive lies and racial stereotypes. It’s bad enough when we do it on our social media threads. It’s completely unacceptable when Donald Trump uses the enormous megaphone of the American presidency to vent, settle scores, rock markets on a whim, and whip up the media into fresh rounds of hyperbolic frenzy whenever he is bored.

How long before he tweets an offer to buy Israel?

I do not dislike everything the [resident has done, including moving the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Israel’s enemies don’t get to determine where Israel’s capital is located. I support border enforcement. I believe businesses have been over-regulated and China is a currency manipulator and prolific violator of copyright and patent protections. I think the Iran deal was a bad idea. With that said, I dislike nearly everything about how the president conducts himself.

Sadly, this will not change. At 73 years of age, this is the finished product. Donald Trump is who he is. For all their bluster, the Democrats will not impeach him. It will be up to us to decide next November if the new abnormal is to continue for another four years.

Doug McIntyre is host of "McIntyre in the Morning" on 790 KABC in Los Angeles, heard weekdays from 5-10 a.m. He also hosted "Red Eye Radio" both locally and nationally and has been talking into a microphone for 20 years. He writes a weekly column for the Southern California News Group.

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